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The famous (or infamous) human-powered flight competition, Red Bull Flugtag, announced its winner for the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta event. The winner is determined based on three criteria: design creativity, team showmanship and, lastly, flight distance. There are no limits as to whom can enter, and the competition consists of everyday people trying to build gliders in their garages. The winners this...

The hang gliding community near Wanneroo city in Australia has been delivered good news recently as the Wanneroo city council to approve a formal launch site near Quinns Rocks and Jindalee. The people at HGAWA (the Hang Gliding Association of WA) celebrated the decision glee fully on July 25th 20017some time after delivering their development application to have an...

With a goal of becoming the first person to base jump the highest jumpable peaks on seven continents, Valery Rozov takes on South America with a jump from the Huascarán in Peru at 22,000 feet in elevation.
He currently holds the world record for highest base jump for his leap off the north peak of Mount Everest at a height of...

As of July 2017 Kenny Meyer of Sussex, New Jersey has become the oldest living skydiver.
The 102-year-old resident of a small town woke up to a full English breakfast at 6 a.m. and got ready for his first skydiving excursion. Before leaving with his wife, this senior with a zest for life took his usual pills at around 7:50...

When performing stunts, the pilot must always be capable of deploying their reserve effectively, even under high G-forces.
This pilots demonstrates an effective pull after snapping his glider in half. The snap came after pulling up after a high G-dive.

The Zapata Flyboard Air is manufactured by Zapata Racing. Top speed is over 90 mph with a ceiling of 10,000 feet. It will fly for approximately 10 minutes before the backpack fuel tank needs to be replaced.
If you would like to purchase one of these boards for personal use you are out of luck. The Flyboard Air is currently...

5 time Red Bull X-Alp Champion jumps from a helicopter in preparation of the competition.
Chrigel Maurer unique method of jumping his brand new paraglider shows how confident he is of flying in the mountains. Just a few weeks later after this jump he would go on to win the Red Bull X-Alps competition for the fifth time.

WINNERS OF THE 2017 RED BULL X-Alps RACE
1st - Christian Maurer (10 days 23 hours)
2nd - Benoit Outters (11 days 1 hour)
3rd - Paul Guschlbauer (5km from goal)
Red Bull X-Alps is a biannual race in the Alps that brings together the best athletes to either paraglide or walk.
This year, 31 athletes have taken the challenge with athletes from Italy,...

Red Bull produced this movie to show off all of it's extreme air sports athletes which encompasses skydiving, basejumping, wingsuiting, and one stunt pilot. Six months in the making this air sports video is based in eastern Utah in the Moab desert.

On their sixteenth attempt, the women at Skydive Arizona set a new world record for a vertical formation of sixty-five women.
The jump team consisted of women from 18 countries meeting in Elroy, Arizona. The record-breaking formation was accomplished in a little under a week of practice jumps and on-ground formations. While over 90 women showed up, only 65 made...

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